Quote of the Day

"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."

- Oscar Wilde

"Be cautious of those who confuse kindness with weakness."

- Noah ben Shea

"A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men."

- Leonard Ravenhill

Pray First

"I ought to pray before seeing any one . . . Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: ‘Early will I seek thee' . . . feel it is far better to begin with God - to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another."

- Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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Legalism doesn't make people "better"; it makes them worse. Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality. We make a terrible mistake when we believe that the answer to poor performance, be it moral, spiritual, or relational, is more Law. People get worse, not better, when you lay down the Law.

- Tullian Tchividjian: Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free

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The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

- Tullian Tchividjian: Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free

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"If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did."

- Timothy Keller - The Prodigal God

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"Our level of joy (and therefore strength and healing) is directly proportional to our level of acceptance."

- Tim Hansel in You Gotta Keep Dancin'

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"Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with his Presence."

- Paul Claudel

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Life is difficult

This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult--once we truly understand and accept it--then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

Most do not fully see this truth, that life is difficult.

Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race, or even their species, and not upon others. I know about this moaning because I have done my share.

- Scott Peck

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"There are no formulas with God. Period. So there are no formulas for the man who follows him. God is a person, not a doctrine. He operates not like a system - not even a theological system - but with all the originality of a truly free and alive person."

- John Eldredge in Wild at Heart

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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it...

- CS Lewis

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Hell is a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement and where everyone has a grievance.

- CS Lewis

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Pull my chin, stroke my hair,
scratch my nose, hug my knees
Try drink, food, cigarette, tension will not ease
I tap my fingers, fold my arms, breathe in deep, cross my legs
Shrug my shoulders, stretch my back - but nothing seems
to please
I need contact

- Peter Gabriel

Quote of the Day

Society at large cannot make up its mind about men. Having spent the last 30 years redefining masculinity into something more sensitive, safe, manageable and, well, feminine, it now berates men for not being men. . . . "Where are all the real men?" is regular fare for talk shows and new books. "You asked them to be women", I want to say.

- John Eldredge - Wild at Heart

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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering and you find that you have excluded life itself.

- CS Lewis

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Christ works on us through nature, books, our bodies, & sometimes experiences which seem (at the time) anti-Christian.

- CS Lewis

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Human beings can't make one another really happy for long, you can't love someone fully until you love God.

- CS Lewis

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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

- Gil Bailie

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It always seems impossible until it's done

- Nelson Mandela

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Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies

- Nelson Mandela